“Is Corporate Crime Simply The Way Things Are” reads my blog post.

Sheila Smith is a colleague at work, most intelligent and she puts up with me and is kind enough to read my blog. She has some thoughts on my afore mentioned blog post.

and here they are. (These are very good, so please read!)

I was actually told this by a dean of business in college. I had my first internship job as a bookkeeper for a home health agency, and found out that they were fraudulantly reporting home visits to medicare and medicaid and receiving millions from those programs, as well as some other things going on. I went to my dean to ask to be reassigned and ask his advice as to what to do in regards to reporting, etc. He shrugged and said, it’s just the way the corporate world works these days. We just have to accept it and work with it. You’ve gotta learn to be tough out there. I couldn’t accept that; so I quit the job, dropped my remaining accounting classes, and switched my major to education the next semester. I felt like at least teachers could still be ethical and not looked down upon for it. I later found that ethics even falters in education when I was asked to change a grade for a local “known” person’s child so that she could pass and graduate, event though she had not completed even half the work required. I refused to do that, and the administration went behind my back and changed the grade anyway. Needless to say, I had a new job for the next school year. It seems lack of ethics is everywhere, and many just accept it for the norm. How sad!! Maybe it explains alot of the trouble we face in our economy and society?

I hope she writes some more, so I can put it up. This blog is successful because there is more than one cook!

James Pilant